{"id":5423,"date":"2006-10-01T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2016-02-27T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T18:46:51","slug":"how-to-type-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/2006\/10\/01\/how-to-type-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"How to type Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the instruction how to make a\u00a0Windows 7\u00a0<\/span>machine capable of
\nreading and writing Chinese. \u00a0Have fun!
\n** A) Find the main\u00a0dialog box<\/span>.
\n1) Start | Settings | Control Panel | Regional and Language Options
\n** B) Install the language support.
\n2) Go to the “Advanced” tab (NOT the “Regional Options” tab where I\u00a0still keep “English (United States)” as my default standard format.<\/p>\n

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3) On the top of the first dropdown list box, it says “Select a language\u00a0<\/span>to match the language version of the non-Unicode programs you want to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>use:” \u00a0In the dropdown list box, choose “Chinese (Simplified)-Microsoft Pinyin IME”.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

==> If you don’t already have the language installed, it will ask you to
\nput the Windows’s CD in your CD ROM drive to install it.
\n4) Under “Code page conversion tables”, make sure the followings are
\nchecked: All the items with “Traditional Chinese” (for\u00a0Taiwan<\/span>) or\/and “Simplified
\nChinese” (for mainland China) are checked.
\n** C) Install the IME (Input Method Editor<\/span>).
\n<\/span>5) Go to the “Language” tab, and click on the “Details…” button.
\n==> You should see a “Text Services and Input Languages”\u00a0dialog box<\/span>.
\n6) Click on “Add…” button
\n==> You should get an “Add Input Language” dialog box.
\n7) Under “Input language”, select “Chinese (Taiwan)” from the dropdown
\nlist box and check “Keyboard layout\/IME” on.
\n<\/span>==> Now you should be able to select the methods you want to input your Chinese. \u00a0If you know bo, po, mo, fo, it is “phonetic IME”. \u00a0You may install both “Microsoft New Phonetic IME” and “Chinese (Traditional) -Phonetic” and see which one is more intuitive to you and then delete the other one later. \u00a0If you like, you can install ALL the IME’s, but you
\n<\/span>don’t have to. \u00a0If you install all, you might find they are annoying
\nwhen you want to switch between English and Chinese. \u00a0For instance, you got five or ten different Chinese IME’s installed, then you have to pass five (or ten) Chinese modes before you reach the English mode.
\n** D) Customize how to switch between different Chinese input modes and
\nEnglish mode.
\n8) At the bottom of “Text Services and Input Languages” dialog box,
\nclick on “Key Settings”. \u00a0You can customize the hot keys (i.e.\u00a0<\/span>shortcut
\nkeys) to switch between different modes. \u00a0I usually don’t customize this
\nso that I won’t feel too ‘disabled’ when I use someone else’s machine.
\nUsually people leave this alone (i.e. keep the default settings).
\n** E) Install Chinese fonts.
\n9) Simply copy the fonts (usually are TTF files) to C:\\Windows\\Fonts.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the instruction how to make a\u00a0Windows 7\u00a0machine capable of reading and writing Chinese. \u00a0Have fun! ** A) Find the main\u00a0dialog box. 1) Start | Settings | Control Panel | Regional and Language Options ** B) Install the language support. 2) Go to the “Advanced” tab (NOT the “Regional Options” tab where I\u00a0still keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-skills-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.huayuworld.org\/huahuafun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}